Breaking the Code: DHL's Failure to Abide by International Standards

Report Published 29 Feb 2016

This independent academic investigation, based on interviews with workers in Chile, Panama and Colombia, has found that German multinational Deutsche Post DHL “grievously and systematically” fails to live up to its own procedures, aspirations and promises set out in its ‘Code of Conduct’, as well as to international labour standards.

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